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4wd is a $4000 option on a XLT Ranger ($3500 on a XLT F150)... that’s a drop in the bucket when you’re already spending $40+.Cause & Effect:
Cause = 4x4's cost more and make more money for everybody except the buyer, SO lets stock the dealers with 4x4's and sell the sh!t out of them.
Effect = Now people have 4x4's and don't go off road, because the dealer only stocks 4x4's.
I've heard/read on here several people say their dealership barely stocks 2wd trucks of any kind. because the 4wd trucks carry a premium and salespeople make 4wd trucks seem superior to 2wd. So people buy 4wd trucks. Then the same salesperson will tell you how they "can't" hardly sale a 2wd truck. It's not even science, it's just a sales tactic. and then they go and make the 2wd trucks with 4wd "stance", so they can sale 2wd trucks. ( I'm lookin' @ u FX2)
The new 3 stages of "Ford Performance" stuff is a prime example. They're selling more 4wd variants of the same truck, and the stickers seem to be what you get the most of. ( oh, AND blue or red hooks)
Around here maybe 75% or more of trucks are 4wd.... we get snow. We could get 6’ or 3” throughout a season, you never know what’s coming. (This past winter we had 2 snow falls that amounted to less then 3” of snow.) People think they’re going to get snowed in and die.... They NEED 4wd!!!
I alway buy 4x4s because it’s better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it. Plus my job requires me to come in and fix the plow trucks. No excuses, you get called in you’ve got 45 minutes to get ready and get to the shop.
It’s way easier to reach down and click it into 4wd, than it is to deal with putting weight in the bed, or driving more carefully, or paying attention to the road, or slowing down to match my speed to the road conditions, or putting on snow tires, or actually learning how to drive.